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Does it matter?

We assume that the people implementing stack ranking have good incentives.

At one of my jobs, my manager blurted out what we have all suspected about Scrum. It is valuable to generate a neat numerical progress report for the guy above. It has no other value.

My manager doesn't give a shit about achieving anything either. He is doing the same gaming we are.




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